Breaking news, Monday, November 19

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5.30pm: A panel led by the UK’s former Children’s Minister Sarah Teather is to examine how children and families are supported under the Home Office system for asylum seekers.

5:00pm: The firm behind the closure of the Hall’s of Broxburn meat plant, with loss of hundreds of jobs, today announced it is selling up all its UK food businesses. Dutch giant Vion employs 13,000 people across the UK , but says it is selling up to concentrate on its “core markets” in the Netherlands and Germany.

1:30pm: The most popular story on Scotsman.com today is the intention of SPL clubs to veto the preferred league construction option of SFL sides.

12:20pm: George McCallum has been fined £5,000 for health and safety failings following the death of 14-year-old army cadet Kaylee McIntosh.

12.05pm: An app which enables motorists to find parking spaces is also being used by wardens to find out when time is running out on a meter. Manufactured by Perth based Town and City Parking, the Metereye system transmits a signal from under the road when a parking space can become free which can be picked up by smartphones, iPads and other tablet devices.

11.50am: Flooding at Comrie in Highland Perthshire has been a declared a “major incident” by Tayside Fire and Rescue Service as the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has issued six floor alerts and five flood warnings earlier today.

The stone fell off a Next branch on the city’s main thoroughfare at around 6.40am on Monday.

10.40am: Police today appealed for information after a man was found unconscious in an Edinburgh street. The man was found around 5am yesterday in Oxgangs Street having suffered a head injury and was taken to the ERI for treatment.

9.50am: Heavy rain is causing problems for drivers on many roads across Scotland and the Met Office has issued yellow “be aware” warnings for the Highlands and the Western Isles, Strathclyde, Central, Tayside and Fife, the south west and Lothian and Borders.